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@racingoncourse @HughRacing I think personally so dangerous as it messes up reward system in your brain at an impressionable age. Gambling is such a mentally taxing game.

Well said @HughRacing

@apgeraghty @TheJockeyClub 🤣🤣🤣

JP not been paying his bills? Fabulous from @TheJockeyClub

@RichyShea Presume Punter went in again somewhere else for more

If they didn’t advertise they took it, would it have been easier get rid of some of it in the ring? Everyone knew they took it at 8s and would be mad to get rid of it? Or irrelevant?

@SineadOS1 @texastovolume10 I think that’s the problem

@texastovolume10 Correct!

The protests in Ireland are not about just fuel! They are about the distance between Ireland on this graph and every other modern and developed economy. Ireland is second wealthiest but gets waaaaay less than any other country for that wealth. By a golden mile. That visual gap in this graph? That’s what people are protesting. It’s a lack of infrastructure and the everyday enshittification of services, the economy, and the additional difficulty of trying to live, relative to peers in any other country. It also highlights why people don’t get uniformly listened to! - because there is no government architecture to engage meaningfully across this huge gap. That gap is a three hour drive to work in traffic, a 14 month wait for an MRI, buses that don’t arrive, trains that don’t exist, schools that have no places for your kids, houses that are unaffordable, pubs that close before midnight, €12 sandwiches, expensive fuel. People feel this gap, even if they can’t explain it precisely. And that builds into resentment, and ultimately protest. Fuel just happened to be the next thing that could be pointed to, today.

@yirdasellsavom @itvracing Doubtful I’d say JP bet it

@itvracing Another fake slip. No one absolutely no one puts 100 grand on a horse in this race

Someone has just placed ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND pounds on I Am Maximus to win the Grand National 😳 #ITVRacing

@cilliandoyle87 Dad was wealthy

Wealthy barristers?

@MmaTwister I think Katie is on the Bill

So they’ll put this on in Croker but not give Katie Taylor her well deserved Croke park fight? Should hang their heads in shame.

@NiallStanage Not a bad country ♥️

A 96-year-old Irish cancer patient had never been away from his 94-year-old wife until he had to go elsewhere in the State for a biopsy. While away, he started to die — so the Irish Defense Forces airlifted him home, where he passed away hours later. 🥹 irishtimes.com/ireland/2026/0…

@simon_ree Literally anything is possible with Trump, if stock market goes south.

Hard to see how this ends in 2-3 weeks BTW...this account is ridiculously underfollowed relative to the quality of their content 👇🏻👇🏻

@MakeBettingPay @nothingismm I quite like Barney, but his not a folk hero. Master at his craft, but don’t get on his wrong side. Quite normal to be honest.

@nothingismm @Scully7925 Unfortunately he didn't manage it but he had a good go. youtu.be/nUU0AlrNSt4?si…

The Skelton/Squirrels gamble the other day has got me wondering about my prejudices. What is it about him that irritates me so much? I love a well executed gamble as much as the next man and listen with an indulgent smile to all the legendary stories of Curley and Byrnes. But there is a touch of the outlaw rogue about those lads. Skelton, on the other hand is an upper class, 'establishment' insider and and it all feels a bit like he's rubbing our noses in it. Maybe I'm being unfair, I don't know.

@Sean__Dunne1 Cost of preparing said gamble (no guarantee it comes off) £100,000k plus

Looking at the profiles of the three horses that landed the gamble, they were anything but obvious to say the least 😂 🐴 Coumeenoole – 0 from 12 before today, opening UK mark of 119 and dropped 11lbs in 4 runs over two months. 🐴 Palamon – 2 from 32, opening UK mark of 126 and dropped 15lbs in 4 runs in two months. 🐴 Tyson – 0 from 13, opening UK mark of 102 and dropped 9lbs in 4 runs in two months.

@seandw14 @gk30972 🎣

Not sure I would want to risk a stallion prospect of his value going down under

@BettingSitesCom @curraghrace Let me tell you a story, backed Bobby Joe to win Aintree Grand National in Paddy Power Portlaoise. Dropped the docket that night in a nightclub guaranteed it was crumpled up. Yet by 9.30 next morning it had been cashed.

@FcbShedy Was that not v Belgium in Bordeaux

Irish football fans celebrate women buying lingerie in Denmark😂😭😭

@Racing_Tales Oisin and Ryan so good

Not many know this but the GOAT flat jockey Ryan Moore rode his first professional winner back on 15th May 2000 as a 16 year old. Over hurdles 🤯

@patcashhealy @gk30972 @DingleRaces Dingle Tom on commentary 🤣🤣

20 years ago ⁦Dingle Races a young Paul Townend won ⁦@DingleRaces⁩ Derby on Tony B 👏 Some journey since…. Thanks to Colm Sayers for video 👌

Legend 💪 A great addition to the @URSAMAJORRACING team is the main man @racingoncourse

@ciaranodeorain I backed him , didn’t realise. Beautiful Horse

Going to be a bit of a long one here so I apologise for advance but I think context is needed…. What happened today to Envoi Allen was unmistakably sad; he was such a popular horse in the NH game and was loved across both Britain and Ireland. For him to collapse after what was always going to be his final race was absolutely tragic and was such a heartbreaking blow after the exhilaration of Gaelic Warrior’s GC win I understand that people, just like me, are deeply upset about this. But people must careful that when (rightfully) expressing their sorrow, they must not at the same time look to pin the blame on certain people without due consideration Yes, he was a 12yo, yes, he was running at Championship race in a Championship pace over a searching and stamina-sapping course and distance. These points are inarguably true But at the same time, he had won his last race in a G1 a few months ago over 3m and looked to be enjoying an Indian Summer; some people like to say that “horses are long enough retired” and the fact is Envoi Allen loved what he was doing and was still producing the goods at the top level Sure, they could have retired him but he wasn’t exactly running as if he was gone at the game. I can understand the argument that maybe there should be age limits which prevent older horses from running in these races but at the same time, Kauto Star won a KG at 11 and ran in a GC at 12, Tidal Bay won a Hennessy at 12, even L’Homme Presse finished 5th today in the GC at 11 If we put in an age limit, where do we put it? And should we putting in a limit based on one example when other examples suggest otherwise? Welfare regulation changes should not be based on a few high-profile examples but rather on a large sample size of data People must also be careful to not use hindsight bias here. You cannot blindly argue that just because Envoi Allen died, he should not have run or should have been pulled up earlier. Of course, you can argue either or but any review of whether they were right or wrong to run him should take into account that connections were not operating with the benefit of hindsight. Any argument should instead be made with the same information that was available to his connections In my view, with the knowledge that was publicly available at the time, I would’ve run Envoi Allen. People must understand that while his death was tragic, not all bad outcomes are the result of factors that were in the control of either him as a racehorse or his connections Where there is life, unfortunately there is death too. Horses are immensely powerful animals but at the same time, they are also very fragile animals. They could die jumping a fence, breaking down on the flat, working at home, from a sickness, or just out in a field doing nothing. There is always risk attached with racehorses even in seemingly harmless situations (Same way there is risk attached to almost any human activity be that driving or running a marathon); the question we must answer is whether the risk they are put under can be justified by the joy they give to both us and to themselves (Given they were effectively bred to do this job) Maybe Darragh should’ve pulled him up earlier, I don’t know but you’d imagine he’d feel as bad as anyone right now. I’m sure if he knew what would happen, he would’ve pulled him up but alas, no-one operates with perfect foresight and IMO, it is unfair to blame him given Envoi Allen finished 53l last and was likely eased up the straight This was a tragedy and the NH game is a lot worse for Envoi Allen’s absence. But just because there was a tragedy does not mean that someone was necessarily at fault. This can be a very tough game as Envoi Allen’s connections only know too well right now. Better for people to mourn the loss of one of the most loved jumps horses in recent years than to demand their pound of flesh off someone without proper consideration. RIP Envoi Allen, you were a real one

@BeyondTheWings2 Think he will have 2 + winners yet

Gordon Elliott is having a horrible Cheltenham Running atrocious